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Exclusive rights to NFL simulation video games thanks to a vote from league owners this offseason, but that doesn't mean current players won't be featured in other games Ian Kennedy Jersey in the near future. 2K, the video game publisher behind the annual " 2K" series and the popular "ESPN NFL 2K5" game, announced Thursday an agreement with the NFL Players A sociation to include more than 2,000 NFL players in multiple new football games starting in 2021.2K, which itself operates under the umbrella of Take-Two Interactive, had a "multiyear partnership" with the NFL Alex Gordon Jersey to produce future football-related games. 2K's latest agreement, struck alongside OneTeam Partners (OneTeam) -- a joint venture between the NFLPA, MLBPA and RedBird Capital -- confirms those games will feature active NFL player names, jersey numbers, images and likene ses.2K's upcoming new games are cla sified as "non-simulation" games, which are technically exclusive to EA Sports and its annual "Madden" franchise. But it's unclear exactly what does and does not qualify as a "simulation." For instance, 2K said in its pre s release regarding the NFLPA deal Joakim Soria Jersey that its games will be "football game experiences," signaling potential similarities with game-day play found in "Madden." Either way, 2K's acquisition of NFL player likene ses marks a clear step toward re-entering the NFL video game market. "We're thrilled to be working with the NFLPA and OneTeam to bring the biggest and best stars in football to the games we're working on," said 2K president David Ismailer. "We want to give fans experiences that are authentic, memorable and fun, and having a roster Justin Grimm Jersey of real-life sports heroes through the Players A sociation and OneTeam is a Chris Owings Jersey huge part of delivering on that promise."Specific game titles, developers and release dates will be announced at a later date. 2K released six different NFL simulation titles between 1999-2004, most recently publishing the critically acclaimed "ESPN NFL 2K5." Electronic Arts signed an exclusivity deal with the NFL shortly afterward to ensure EA Sports held the rights to future simulation as part of its "Madden" series, which began in 1988.
Exclusive rights to NFL simulation video games thanks to a vote from league owners this offseason, but that doesn’t mean current players won’t be featured in other games Ian Kennedy Jersey in the near future. 2K, the video game publisher behind the annual ” 2K” series and the popular “ESPN NFL 2K5” game, announced Thursday an agreement with the NFL Players A sociation to include more than 2,000 NFL players in multiple new football games starting in 2021.2K, which itself operates under the umbrella of Take-Two Interactive, had a “multiyear partnership” with the NFL Alex Gordon Jersey to produce future football-related games. 2K’s latest agreement, struck alongside OneTeam Partners (OneTeam) — a joint venture between the NFLPA, MLBPA and RedBird Capital — confirms those games will feature active NFL player names, jersey numbers, images and likene ses.2K’s upcoming new games are cla sified as “non-simulation” games, which are technically exclusive to EA Sports and its annual “Madden” franchise. But it’s unclear exactly what does and does not qualify as a “simulation.” For instance, 2K said in its pre s release regarding the NFLPA deal Joakim Soria Jersey that its games will be “football game experiences,” signaling potential similarities with game-day play found in “Madden.” Either way, 2K’s acquisition of NFL player likene ses marks a clear step toward re-entering the NFL video game market. “We’re thrilled to be working with the NFLPA and OneTeam to bring the biggest and best stars in football to the games we’re working on,” said 2K president David Ismailer. “We want to give fans experiences that are authentic, memorable and fun, and having a roster Justin Grimm Jersey of real-life sports heroes through the Players A sociation and OneTeam is a Chris Owings Jersey huge part of delivering on that promise.”Specific game titles, developers and release dates will be announced at a later date. 2K released six different NFL simulation titles between 1999-2004, most recently publishing the critically acclaimed “ESPN NFL 2K5.” Electronic Arts signed an exclusivity deal with the NFL shortly afterward to ensure EA Sports held the rights to future simulation as part of its “Madden” series, which began in 1988.…
The biggest event on the NFL calendar in early July is almost always the supplemental draft, but it appears that event Nathan Eovaldi Jersey won't be taking place this year.According , the league has decided to pull the plug on this year's draft. Under the collective bargaining agreement, the is given the option of holding the supplemental draft each year, and due to the coronavirus pandemic, the league clearly decided that Xander Bogaerts Jersey having a draft wouldn't make any sense.For those of you unfamiliar with the supplemental draft, it's an event that's usually held in mid-July, and a big reason it's held is to accommodate college players who were in unique situations. For instance, if a senior in college found out they were going to be suspended for the upcoming college season, they could Rafael Devers Jersey file petition to be eligible for the supplemental draft.Although the supplemental draft isn't as well known as the main draft, it has produced some solid players over the years. Cris Carter, Bernie Kosar, Josh Gordon and Terrelle Pryor are all examples of players who were selected in a supplemental draft. One unique aspect of the supplement draft is that if a player gets selected, then the team Chris Sale Jersey loses that draft spot in the following year's . For instance, the Cardinals selected Jalen Thompson in the fifth round of the 2019 supplemental draft, and because of that, they forfeited their fifth-round pick in the 2020 NFL Draft.One other unique aspect of the draft is that there's no guarantee that a player will be selected during the draft. Over the past decade, there have been four instances where zero players were selected (2013, 2014, 2016, 2017). On the other hand, there can sometimes be multiple players selected, something that last happened in 2018 when the Giants and Redskins both selected corners in Sam Beal and Adonis Alexander. If you still need your supplemental draft Johnny Pesky Jersey fill, make sure to .
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What a wild regular season we had in 2019. Tons of quarterback departures started off the year, with , and all disappearing into the void by the end of Week 2. And yet, despite three top-shelf quarterbacks falling by the wayside, we ended up with a loaded slate. The only team who made the dance with le s than 10 wins was the , who emerged victorious in the NFC East.Of course, regular season records are now irrelevant. It's perfectly fine to reflect on a regular season record -- like, for instance, the fact that I destroyed the competition in against the spread picks for the entire 2019 regular season.But note that my record, like that of every , resets at this point. Everyone is 0-0 now. Just because the Eagles didn't win 12 games doesn't mean they can't beat the .Having said that, this is the first time a team has been a short 'dog (le s than a touchdown) at home since after the 2015 season, when the were short 'dogs to the . Cincy should have won that game, but, uh, . Over the last 15 years (since the 2004 season), there have been 13 games where a home team in Wild Card Weekend was an underdog. In those games, the home team is a concerning 3-10 straight up, with the only wins coming either in overtime (twice) Martin Perez Jersey or via an all-time insane comeback (Andrew Luck over the after the 2013 season). Those home teams are 6-6-1 against the spread, however and the under is 9-4 so it's po sible we just get a low-scoring close game that features Jason Myers knocking down a field goal to give the Seahawks a sneak-out-of-town victory over Philly. The point being the a sumption that a team with a better regular season record will blow out a team who struggled to close out a bad division is short-sighted. We've seen a team like the 7-8-1 throttle an opponent on Wild Card Weekend.My picks are below, but if you need more playoff info, make sure and and fire up the latest edition of the Pick Six Podcast. We do daily shows -- even on holidays! -- and we'll have our playoff picks show up Friday morning. Hit the play button below for the latest on Black Friday rumors and to your favorite podcast app. +2.5 at Unle s I am just completely misreading this, the Alex Verdugo Jersey Bills are not considered the trendy underdog pick for Wild Card Weekend. They're getting about 50 percent of the bets so far this week, so I don't think it's the case where everyone is picking them. Maybe people should be picking the Bills though. Buffalo's strengths match up against what the Texans need to have happen for them to win.Specifically, the Bills' pa s defense has been one of the best in the NFL this season. is a blo soming superstar cornerback, and he should be able to hang with . Whether or not Houston gets back could be a major factor here -- Houston averages over 25 points per game when Fuller plays and le s than 20 when he's mi sing. That doesn't fully account for the wide receiver being dinged up for portions of games, either. J.J. Watt says he'll play too, although coming back from a midseason torn pectoral muscle for a wild-card game feels like it could limit his effectivene s. I think Buffalo will want to run the ball a bunch, eat up clock and turn this into a defensive grinder of a game. If there's one thing Bill O'Brien's shown us this year, is that he'll play along if someone tries to do that. If Houston does, it severely limits their effectivene s on offense and minimizes their scoring opportunities. should be able to take some shots against this Texans secondary. Bills win outright and advance. -5 vs. is the trendy underdog pick. I've seen plenty of people project the Titans to roll into Foxborough and beat Pedro Martinez Jersey the Patriots, including three of four in our Pick Six Podcast crew, who did it out of the gate on our YouTube Wild Card Weekend Lookahead Lines show: It's very po sible the Titans are just a bad matchup for this New England team. You need to beat the Pats by running the football, and was the best running back in football over the second half of the season, when he piled up yards and won the rushing title. was a revelation, potentially altering the franchise's course at quarterback for the next several years. He's loose, free and whipping the ball downfield en route to leading the league in pa ser rating. I love A.J. Brown more than I love some family members, and he deserves more love for Offensive Rookie of the Year than he's getting. But I've seen this movie before: trendy team who got hot down the stretch goes into New England as a shorter underdog, with a bunch of people picking Xander Bogaerts Jersey them to win because the matchups favor them, only to get flexed on by Bill Belichick and . and it could work out poorly for the Titans too.Maybe Tenne see is closer to the 2009 ? They got the Pats on Wild Card Weekend and smashed them with the run game and defense. Brady looked horrific against the in the first half and then, with a bye on the line, Belichick's defense couldn't stop , and from marching down the field. There's plenty of reason to be concerned for New England. I don't think they win the Super Bowl. But I'm not going to fade them at home in the playoffs until they show me I should. +7.5 at This is just too many points for me to take the Saints. New Orleans is maybe the hottest offense in football, and no one's looked worse than the Vikings over the past two weeks -- they laid the biggest egg of the year with their Monday night Week 16 lo s to the at home, with a chance to keep their division title hopes alive. Horrendous performance. Week 17 featured backups in a lo s to the at home, so maybe it wasn't that bad, but to the casual fan Minnesota is limping in. You will hear people say all week long that this is a revenge game for the Saints for the Minneapolis Miracle. That's a way to identify a storyline instead of looking at the actual matchups involved. And the reality is the Vikings aren't a great offensive matchup for the Saints defense. With and , the Saints might be due to give up a 100-yard rusher for the first time in 42 games (playoffs included). 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What a wild regular season we had in 2019. Tons of quarterback departures started off the year, with , and all disappearing into the void by the end of Week 2. And yet, despite three top-shelf quarterbacks falling by the wayside, we ended up with a loaded slate. The only team who made the dance with le s than 10 wins was the , who emerged victorious in the NFC East.Of course, regular season records are now irrelevant. It’s perfectly fine to reflect on a regular season record — like, for instance, the fact that I destroyed the competition in against the spread picks for the entire 2019 regular season.But note that my record, like that of every , resets at this point. Everyone is 0-0 now. Just because the Eagles didn’t win 12 games doesn’t mean they can’t beat the .Having said that, this is the first time a team has been a short ‘dog (le s than a touchdown) at home since after the 2015 season, when the were short ‘dogs to the . Cincy should have won that game, but, uh, . Over the last 15 years (since the 2004 season), there have been 13 games where a home team in Wild Card Weekend was an underdog. In those games, the home team is a concerning 3-10 straight up, with the only wins coming either in overtime (twice) Martin Perez Jersey or via an all-time insane comeback (Andrew Luck over the after the 2013 season). Those home teams are 6-6-1 against the spread, however and the under is 9-4 so it’s po sible we just get a low-scoring close game that features Jason Myers knocking down a field goal to give the Seahawks a sneak-out-of-town victory over Philly. The point being the a sumption that a team with a better regular season record will blow out a team who struggled to close out a bad division is short-sighted. We’ve seen a team like the 7-8-1 throttle an opponent on Wild Card Weekend.My picks are below, but if you need more playoff info, make sure and and fire up the latest edition of the Pick Six Podcast. We do daily shows — even on holidays! — and we’ll have our playoff picks show up Friday morning. Hit the play button below for the latest on Black Friday rumors and to your favorite podcast app. +2.5 at Unle s I am just completely misreading this, the Alex Verdugo Jersey Bills are not considered the trendy underdog pick for Wild Card Weekend. They’re getting about 50 percent of the bets so far this week, so I don’t think it’s the case where everyone is picking them. Maybe people should be picking the Bills though. Buffalo’s strengths match up against what the Texans need to have happen for them to win.Specifically, the Bills’ pa s defense has been one of the best in the NFL this season. is a blo soming superstar cornerback, and he should be able to hang with . Whether or not Houston gets back could be a major factor here — Houston averages over 25 points per game when Fuller plays and le s than 20 when he’s mi sing. That doesn’t fully account for the wide receiver being dinged up for portions of games, either. J.J. Watt says he’ll play too, although coming back from a midseason torn pectoral muscle for a wild-card game feels like it could limit his effectivene s. I think Buffalo will want to run the ball a bunch, eat up clock and turn this into a defensive grinder of a game. If there’s one thing Bill O’Brien’s shown us this year, is that he’ll play along if someone tries to do that. If Houston does, it severely limits their effectivene s on offense and minimizes their scoring opportunities. should be able to take some shots against this Texans secondary. Bills win outright and advance. -5 vs. is the trendy underdog pick. I’ve seen plenty of people project the Titans to roll into Foxborough and beat Pedro Martinez Jersey the Patriots, including three of four in our Pick Six Podcast crew, who did it out of the gate on our YouTube Wild Card Weekend Lookahead Lines show: It’s very po sible the Titans are just a bad matchup for this New England team. You need to beat the Pats by running the football, and was the best running back in football over the second half of the season, when he piled up yards and won the rushing title. was a revelation, potentially altering the franchise’s course at quarterback for the next several years. He’s loose, free and whipping the ball downfield en route to leading the league in pa ser rating. I love A.J. Brown more than I love some family members, and he deserves more love for Offensive Rookie of the Year than he’s getting. But I’ve seen this movie before: trendy team who got hot down the stretch goes into New England as a shorter underdog, with a bunch of people picking Xander Bogaerts Jersey them to win because the matchups favor them, only to get flexed on by Bill Belichick and . and it could work out poorly for the Titans too.Maybe Tenne see is closer to the 2009 ? They got the Pats on Wild Card Weekend and smashed them with the run game and defense. Brady looked horrific against the in the first half and then, with a bye on the line, Belichick’s defense couldn’t stop , and from marching down the field. There’s plenty of reason to be concerned for New England. I don’t think they win the Super Bowl. But I’m not going to fade them at home in the playoffs until they show me I should. +7.5 at This is just too many points for me to take the Saints. New Orleans is maybe the hottest offense in football, and no one’s looked worse than the Vikings over the past two weeks — they laid the biggest egg of the year with their Monday night Week 16 lo s to the at home, with a chance to keep their division title hopes alive. Horrendous performance. Week 17 featured backups in a lo s to the at home, so maybe it wasn’t that bad, but to the casual fan Minnesota is limping in. You will hear people say all week long that this is a revenge game for the Saints for the Minneapolis Miracle. That’s a way to identify a storyline instead of looking at the actual matchups involved. And the reality is the Vikings aren’t a great offensive matchup for the Saints defense. With and , the Saints might be due to give up a 100-yard rusher for the first time in 42 games (playoffs included). I don’t think the Saints can completely lock down both and . gets to play at 1 p.m. ET! hasn’t been limited at all in practice — there’s reason to think he should be able Fred Lynn Jersey to have a fully healthy game, which would be a major boon for the Vikings’ offense. Kevin Stefanski basically abandoned attacking Green Bay with play action without Cook in the game. They don’t need to establish the run to make it work, so that was a little odd.With Cook healthy, the Vikings should renew their play-action focus, and it will result in points. I’m not sure how they stop the Saints from scoring, though: Brees is playing lights out right now and may have benefited from mi sing six games because his arm doesn’t look tired the way it did this time last year. is the best wide receiver in football right now. This over has been steaming up all week and I expect it to finish north of 50 — I think this game is played in the 60s, but I would grab Over 49 if you can.…
Round 1 of the 2020 NFL Draft is in the books, and while the first half of Thursday's 32 selections went roughly according to plan, we had some absolute shockers that virtually no one could have predicted. That list included the somehow landing in , the taking one of the draft's best centers for Cliff Pennington Jersey the second year in a row, and last but certainly not least, the quarterback .While nothing that happens on Friday is likely to match that last item for shock value, you simply can't rule it out. Here are five bold predictions we believe will come true by the time Day 2 comes to a close on Friday night.1. keep pa sing on quarterbacksThe Patriots now have five selections on Day 2 after swapping their first-round pick to the for No. 37 and 71, and they have to take a quarterback at some point, right? Don't count on it. Anybody they'd select now would be coming into the QB room raw with little hope of being able to start early for the team, and the Patriots already have a young signal-caller they seem to love on the roster in . Even if they're looking to upgrade over Stidham for 2020, signing or trading for an established veteran makes more sense for this team than hoping one of the available quarterback prospects is better than Stidham. 2. land two Week 1 starters in Michael Lorenzen Jersey Round 2It becomes increasingly hard to find immediate impact players the further you get in the draft, but despite not having a first-round pick following their acquisition of , the Colts will scoop two up by the time Round 2 comes to an end. That's because the positions they'll be looking to draft are still stocked with talent. Even with six receivers off the board in Round 1, quality options such as Denzel Mims, Tee Higgins and Michael Pittman are still on the board. Scott Feldman Jersey On the defensive side, only two edge rushers were drafted, leaving the Colts with the option to land someone like Yetur Gro s-Matos or Marlon Davidson. And no team took a safety, so if the Colts want to go that route, they have plenty of options available. A component with "marker-draft-tracker-nfl" slug not found to render the marker. (Slug not found) 3. double up on O-lineThe Giants became the first team in this year's draft to take an offensive lineman, selecting at No. 4. And they'll go right back to the well at the beginning of Day 2, nabbing a center who can step in and fill that need for the offense and put in the best chance to succeed. Lloyd Cushenberry is an underrated prospect who wouldn't have surprised if he slipped into the end of the first round, and while his name isn't as prominent as some of the others available, he's the guy who fits best for the Giants before they turn their attention to the defensive side of the ball.4. Jalen Hurts is the next quarterback draftedIt wasn't all that surprising to see four quarterbacks go off the board in Round 1, and if there had been a fifth, many a sume Jacob Eason would have been the guy. But I'm not sure he's going to be in demand as a prospect despite his strong measurables. In fact, I can see a team falling in love with what Hurts brings to the table and not worrying as much about what he can't do. He's the type of player that could get a team to fall in love with his upside as a developmental player, and he can also be an option for a team who would like his specific fit Trevor Bauer Jersey in their offense, even if he's not everyone's cup of tea. 5. Sleeper is first safety to be draftedThe safety position this year is one where it seems everyone has a different favorite, and while casual observers likely thought Xavier McKinney was a lock to be selected in the first round, he's still available as we prepare for the second day of the draft. While he could come off the board quickly, his slide has opened the door for a le ser known name to emerge as the first player taken at the position over the Alabama product as well as LSU safety Grant Delpit. Southern Illinois safety Jeremy Chinn has seen his buzz building as draft day drew near, and Cal's Ashtyn Davis is another player with plenty of fans among evaluators. It shouldn't surprise anyone if either were to be the first safety to go, though it certainly Alex Wood Jersey will shock plenty of people if it happens.
Round 1 of the 2020 NFL Draft is in the books, and while the first half of Thursday’s 32 selections went roughly according to plan, we had some absolute shockers that virtually no one could have predicted. That list included the somehow landing in , the taking one of the draft’s best centers for Cliff Pennington Jersey the second year in a row, and last but certainly not least, the quarterback .While nothing that happens on Friday is likely to match that last item for shock value, you simply can’t rule it out. Here are five bold predictions we believe will come true by the time Day 2 comes to a close on Friday night.1. keep pa sing on quarterbacksThe Patriots now have five selections on Day 2 after swapping their first-round pick to the for No. 37 and 71, and they have to take a quarterback at some point, right? Don’t count on it. Anybody they’d select now would be coming into the QB room raw with little hope of being able to start early for the team, and the Patriots already have a young signal-caller they seem to love on the roster in . Even if they’re looking to upgrade over Stidham for 2020, signing or trading for an established veteran makes more sense for this team than hoping one of the available quarterback prospects is better than Stidham. 2. land two Week 1 starters in Michael Lorenzen Jersey Round 2It becomes increasingly hard to find immediate impact players the further you get in the draft, but despite not having a first-round pick following their acquisition of , the Colts will scoop two up by the time Round 2 comes to an end. That’s because the positions they’ll be looking to draft are still stocked with talent. Even with six receivers off the board in Round 1, quality options such as Denzel Mims, Tee Higgins and Michael Pittman are still on the board. Scott Feldman Jersey On the defensive side, only two edge rushers were drafted, leaving the Colts with the option to land someone like Yetur Gro s-Matos or Marlon Davidson. And no team took a safety, so if the Colts want to go that route, they have plenty of options available. A component with “marker-draft-tracker-nfl” slug not found to render the marker. (Slug not found) 3. double up on O-lineThe Giants became the first team in this year’s draft to take an offensive lineman, selecting at No. 4. And they’ll go right back to the well at the beginning of Day 2, nabbing a center who can step in and fill that need for the offense and put in the best chance to succeed. Lloyd Cushenberry is an underrated prospect who wouldn’t have surprised if he slipped into the end of the first round, and while his name isn’t as prominent as some of the others available, he’s the guy who fits best for the Giants before they turn their attention to the defensive side of the ball.4. Jalen Hurts is the next quarterback draftedIt wasn’t all that surprising to see four quarterbacks go off the board in Round 1, and if there had been a fifth, many a sume Jacob Eason would have been the guy. But I’m not sure he’s going to be in demand as a prospect despite his strong measurables. In fact, I can see a team falling in love with what Hurts brings to the table and not worrying as much about what he can’t do. He’s the type of player that could get a team to fall in love with his upside as a developmental player, and he can also be an option for a team who would like his specific fit Trevor Bauer Jersey in their offense, even if he’s not everyone’s cup of tea. 5. Sleeper is first safety to be draftedThe safety position this year is one where it seems everyone has a different favorite, and while casual observers likely thought Xavier McKinney was a lock to be selected in the first round, he’s still available as we prepare for the second day of the draft. While he could come off the board quickly, his slide has opened the door for a le ser known name to emerge as the first player taken at the position over the Alabama product as well as LSU safety Grant Delpit. Southern Illinois safety Jeremy Chinn has seen his buzz building as draft day drew near, and Cal’s Ashtyn Davis is another player with plenty of fans among evaluators. It shouldn’t surprise anyone if either were to be the first safety to go, though it certainly Alex Wood Jersey will shock plenty of people if it happens.…
